Nanosolar Produces Their First Commercially Available Solar Panels

After five years of product development – including
aggressively pipelined science, research and development, manufacturing
process development, product testing, manufacturing engineering and
tool development, and factory construction – Nanosolar
now have shipped first product and received their first check of
product revenue.

the world’s first printed thin-film solar cell in
a commercial panel product;

the world’s first thin-film solar cell with a
low-cost back-contact capability;

the world’s lowest-cost solar panel –
which we believe will make us the first solar manufacturer capable of
profitably selling solar panels at as little as $.99/Watt;

the world’s highest-current thin-film solar panel
– delivering five times the current of any other thin-film
panel on the market today and thus simplifying system deployment;

an intensely systems-optimized product with the lowest
balance-of-system cost of any thin-film panel – due to
innovations in design we have included.

Today we are announcing that we have begun shipping panels for
freefield deployment in Eastern Germany and that the first Megawatt of
our panels will go into a power plant installation there. As far as the
first three of our commercial panels are concerned:

Graphene oxide membranes have been receiving attention for their extremely powerful separation abilities and the ease at which it can be modified, allowing for membrane permittivity to be fine-tuned. These membranes show the potential to be used for water purification, ‘green’ gas purification and greenhouse gas capture.